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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






2. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






3. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






4. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






5. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






6. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






7. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






8. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






9. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






10. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






11. Graphic display of schedule related information.






12. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






13. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






14. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






15. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






16. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






17. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






18. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






19. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






20. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






21. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






22. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






23. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






24. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






25. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






26. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






27. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






28. Provider of products - services or results






29. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






30. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






31. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






32. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






33. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






34. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






35. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






36. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






37. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






38. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






39. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






40. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






41. Processes that organize and manage the project team






42. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






43. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






44. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






45. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






46. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






47. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






48. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






49. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






50. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system